Eep! Got a little wrapped up and just plum forgot to post. Still plugging away at the visual performance instrument/framework sometimes known as PIGS (Percussive Image Gestural System). It’s happily transformed quite a bit since the early iterations, so performance is better we can do some more complex/subtle things. It’s mainly all using OpenGL now … Read more
I made a short video loop, Googling Californias (Half Truths for People on the Go) for the http://w-e-s-t-e-r-n-d-i-g-i-t-a-l.com/ exhibition of west coast artists curated by Rick Silva. Part of The Wrong – New Digital Art Biennale. Interestingly, coincides with my 20 year anniversary in California – guess I’m really a west coast artist now!
I’ve written a new text! It’s on the connection between tap dance and percussion, and how that fits in to women’s percussion history. Lots of videos, so it’s posted in two parts: Tap Dancing Drummers and Other Female Percussionists.
Some most excellent photos by the amazing Emily Grenader are on Experimental Drawing’s Facebook Page. And video awesomely shot by Vanessa Martinez is here!
I’ll be performing CyberSpaceLand tomorrow night in San Diego at “Am I Drawing Now?” hosted by the UCSD Experimental Drawing Studio. The VJ Übergeek Textperience returns, performing the Inimitable Internet with some colorful new twists. Music by DJ 2005! JUNE 6, 2013 SME 202, UCSD Show starts at 8pm…. the party and music continues after … Read more
Here’s video documentation of the “Violent Movies Unraveled” “public window” show I did in December at iotaCenter. In this prototype performance, two violent movies – Psycho and Scarface – are “unraveled” onto separate screens so that the attackers face the attackees. The screens in this case are adjacent apartment windows. Although sound wasn’t used in … Read more
Going to Berlin? My 2005 artistic software, Scream, has been included in the Tools of Distorted Creativity exhibition at Transmediale 2013, Jan 29 to Feb 3. If you’re in town, stop by and belt out some inner turmoil. It’ll make you feel better. After all, look what it did for the guy in the Munch … Read more
Update: 10/15: After that early experiment, PIGS was rewritten to better incorporate live action video and to be more efficient for real-time performance. It’s a project under ongoing development. It’s webpage is here. Here’s PIGS’s debut performance in “Rocket’s Red Glare: Things Exploding on YouTube,” an audiovisual improvisation with clarinetist/sound artist Curt Miller. ———————— ORIGINAL … Read more
I’ll be doing another “Unraveled” ad-hoc performance in West LA Saturday 12/7, starting at 7:30. This one is called, “Violent Movies Unraveled” and features Scarface and Psycho “unraveled” to place attackers and victims side-by-side on two windows – so they have to “face” each other as they carry out their cinematic acts. It’s an experiment … Read more
A quick Halloween experiment: Psycho Unraveled. West LA, 10/31/12. “Unraveling” the famous Psycho shower scene. Rather than the characters being juxtaposed sequentially on a single movie screen, they have separate physical spaces behind a pair of apartment windows. “Unraveling” Psycho’s linear screen space allows us to put the film’s separate, “face-to-face” character shots on-screen at … Read more